AUSTIN — Texas’s capital is on a citywide boil water notice, while thousands of Austin Water’s customers are now without any water at all, officials said Thursday. “We don’t know what we don’t know,” Director Greg Meszaros said of the process, urging residents to plan for days — not hours — without water and to take whatever steps they can to prepare. The boil-water notice came after the city’s largest water treatment facility shut down because it lost power, according to the Austin American-Statesman. Local water officials said the plant is back in operation but struggling to restore service, the newspaper reported. Austin’s director of Homeland Security and Emergency Management told a news conference that water has been purchased for distribution from out of state.

Source: Washington Post February 18, 2021 14:26 UTC